My Little Do-er

Ben is definitely one to just take situations into his own hands! One instance - this morning I told him I would set up Bob the Builder on the computer as soon as I finished washing the produce. About 3 minutes later I turned off the water, dried my hands and turned around to only see Annie in the living room. "Ben?" "I'm in the computer room!" When I got there, he had the game started! He explained how he had stood on the chair, found the disk in the bag on top of the 4-drawer filing cabinet, opened the cd-rom (also on top of the filing cabinet, so there must have been some standing on the desk - forgot to ask about that one!), took out the cd that was in there, put in Bob and clicked on his icon to start the game. We've only played this twice before! If he can do it himself, why should he wait for me to come and help??? Of course, during these events, I also lost the picture that was my wallpaper and all my icons in outlook. Guess it's time to logout each time I leave the computer...

This is also the little boy that when I tell him we can make a cake/brownies after _______, he goes to get the handmixer, a bowl, eggs, cake mix box, oil, a wooden spoon, and the scissors to open the box. Somehow I don't know how he does this all so fast! However, he also occasionally picks up ALL the toys on the floor - even if he didn't play with them and I'm not helping. He's just a little do-er. I need to remember that's a good thing - especailly when our "doings" are not consistent with one another...

The Egg-ngineers Dream Car

We had a ward Easter activity with dinner, an egg hunt for the kids, and then a pine-wood derby type car race to carry an egg for the BIG boys. Andy and Ben spent most of the day Saturday working on their special car.
I must tell you this was definitely a community car. We "borrowed" some 45 records from a friend, got the bumper idea from an other friend, the colorful paper from me, and I know someone else gave another idea, but I can't remember who...
So, the races began and the first car Andy and Ben reaced against was a 7-8 year old. In my mind I thought, "Oh poor kid - I hope it doesn't hurt his feelings if he loses." THEN, I thought, "Andy would be devasted if he loses to this kid! We better not lose because we spent alllll day on this _____ car!!!"
Well, the evening went better than expected. Thankfully, Scott (the boy Mrs. Morrison), suggested we bring extra wheels in case one broke. Thankfully, Karen had two more records that she was willing to donate to the cause. Because, a wheel did break and they had to do emergency surgery on the car.
It came down to the very end, but, yes, Andy and Ben did win First Place - complete with a trophy! Ben came running over to me - I won! I won! It was priceless!!!

Egg Hunt in the Snow?!?

Yes, we were waiting to begin the egg hunt at the church behind our house and there were snow flurries! It was VERY cold and the kids weren't so sure they wanted to do this! It was a fun hunt with lots of eggs and not very many children, so both Ben and Annie had to be persuaded to continue picking up eggs even while baskets were overflowing. Annie had an egg open and she found CHOCOLATE! After that, she had absolutely no interest in finding more eggs - just eating that piece of candy. We went inside after and had to sit by the fire to warm up. Brrr - it's not supposed to be like that in April. Wait - this is Texas! Weatherwise - anything goes!